Barrow Point language
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| Barrow Point | |
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| Mutumui | |
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| Region | Queensland, Australia |
| Ethnicity | Mutumui |
| Extinct | by 2005, with the death of Urwunjin Roger Hart[1] |
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| ISO 639-3 | bpt |
| Glottolog | barr1247 |
| AIATSIS[1] | Y63.1 |
| ELP | Template:Endangered Languages Project |
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The Barrow Point or Mutumui language, called Eibole, is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language. According to Wurm and Hattori (1981), there was one speaker left at the time.[3]
Classification
The language has one dialect in the north called Ongwara.[4]
Phonology
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Unusually among Australian languages, Barrow Point had at least two fricative phonemes, Script error: No such module "IPA". and Script error: No such module "IPA".. They usually developed from Script error: No such module "IPA". and Script error: No such module "IPA"., respectively, when preceded by a stressed long vowel, which then shortened.[5]
References
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- ^ a b Y63.1 Barrow Point at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ^ Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, 23 December 2011 (corrected 6 February 2012)
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Mutumui (QLD)". www.samuseum.sa.gov.au. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Dixon, R. M. W.; Dixon, Robert M. W.; Dixon, Adjunct Professor and Deputy Director of the Language and Culture Centre R. M. W. (14 November 2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521473781.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521473780.
Further reading
- John Haviland and Roger Hart's Old Man Fog and the Last Aborigines of Barrow Point, Template:ISBN, a novel about the efforts of Hart, a native of the Cape York peninsula, to record and preserve Barrow Point language and culture.
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